I've had been a TiVo user up until a few weeks ago when I closed on my house which had fiber and Cat 6e ran through it. The new neighborhood was laid with fiber from ATT so I went with uVerse.
MY EYES! oh gawd the uVerse UI is atrocious! it's a jumbled mess that I haven't quite figured out.
Things I loved about the TiVo UI that are sorely missing in the uVerse UI:
- Channel Icons/logos. Man that was such a great update to TiVo when it started providing the actual channel logos. It made finding channels easy even if I didn't remember the actual channel number.
- Indication of if the show is new. I cannot tell if a show is a re-run or new in uVerse. it doesn't say!
- Setting up a season pass. Man TiVo did a bang up job with it's algorithm of this. Sometimes it did get a little wonky with cable channels but worked flawlessly with the big four. I still cant figure out how to do this with uVerse!
- Just the overall aesthetic of the TiVo UI was pleasant, simplicity at its best. The uVerse UI is just too damn busy.
Either TiVo needs to get on the ball and offer a fiber capable device or uVerse needs to license it's UI!